ETFO President David Mastin discusses the ‘deeply disturbing’ government bill which looks to give the education ministry more power to take over school boards.
The education minister said he’s tasked supervisors at the school boards under provincial control to ‘review the funding formula’ and examine whether ‘we are indeed spending enough money on special education’
Alberta teachers are back in class, but their union’s lawyers were in court Thursday, issuing two separate legal challenges to the province’s back-to-work order.
The Alberta Teachers’ Association leadership is considering legally challenge Bill 2, which forced teachers back to work and invoked the notwithstanding clause. As Travis McEwan reports, the outcomes may be limited, but law experts say...
Thousands of Alberta students, including many in Calgary, walked out of class Thursday morning to show support for teachers who were legislated back to work earlier this week under the province’s Back to School Act....